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Group seating chart

Six tables of four is the most common group-work room. SeatSheet fills the tables evenly, keeps the students you name at different tables and prints the chart on one page. The maker is loaded with this room: paste your own class, shuffle, then print.

24 students

Paste from a spreadsheet, your gradebook or a roster export: "Last, First", numbers and ID columns are handled. Up to 40 students.

Sample class:
Room layout

24 seats

Seating rules keep apart, front row

Keep-apart students never share a pair or table and never sit directly beside, in front of or behind each other. Lock a seat (tap it on the chart) to keep a student exactly there.

More options teacher's desk, empty seats

Runs in your browser: student names never leave this device.

Table 6
Table 5
Table 4
Table 3
Table 2
Table 1
Front of room Teacher's desk

24 students in 24 seats · all 3 rules kept

How to set it up

Table groups make or break a class: one table with three best friends and another with nobody talking. A random draw is the fairest start, and the rules handle the rest. In a groups layout every seat at a table counts as next to every other seat, so a keep-apart pair is always split across two tables. Empty seats are shared out so table sizes stay within one student of each other, and anyone on the front-row list sits at a table nearest the board.

  1. Paste the class list. Up to 40 students are free.
  2. Pick Groups and set the number of tables and the seats per table (3, 4, 5 or 6).
  3. Add keep-apart pairs, one per line, and the students who need a front table.
  4. Press "Make my seating chart", fix anything by dragging names between tables, then print.

Tips

  • Want mixed-ability groups? Lock one confident reader at each table first, then Shuffle the rest.
  • Groups of three work well for labs and stations; groups of five or six for projects with roles.
  • Write the table numbers on cards: the printed chart labels every table the same way.

Group seating chart: questions

Can I make groups of 3, 5 or 6?

Yes. Seats per table goes from 3 to 6, and you can have up to 12 tables. "Fit to class" picks how many tables your list needs.

Are the groups balanced?

By size, yes: with "Even pairs and tables" every table is within one student of the others. By ability or behavior, use locks and keep-apart pairs; SeatSheet does not guess.

Elementary seating chart 22 students · Groups · 25 seats Lab tables seating chart 24 students · Groups · 24 seats Pairs seating chart 22 students · Pairs · 24 seats

See all 8 layouts → or start from your own class.

Pro · planned, not built yet

Planned: SeatSheet Pro for teachers with five periods a day

None of these work today. Everything above this section is free and works now. Join the waitlist and we’ll email you once if and when Pro launches.

Planned

Saved classes

Will keep several classes on this device so you reopen Period 3 in one tap instead of pasting the list again.

Planned

Class periods

Will share one room layout across all your periods, each with its own list, locks and rules.

Planned

Seat rotation

Will remember past charts and reshuffle so students sit with new neighbours each time.

Planned

Student photos

Will put a photo on each seat for subs, stored on this device only.

Planned

Bigger classes

Will seat up to 60 students and draw custom room layouts.

Pro waitlist

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